And besides, when I downloaded it just now, the version number is now 4.00 and I scanned it with current versions of both Avira and Malwarebytes.. Neither one detects it as a trojan..

You may be referring to the WinRar download that is provided by Download.com.. The presence of a trojan in the Download.com version is known and is being worked on.. The download directly from Winrar has not been detected as far as I know..

Which scanner did you use to detect the trojan in the download I linked to above?

Also this problem has been around for some times it seems. Hard to imagine the people making a good programs like WinRar would hot fix it.

I did check with AVG and did not find anything detailing this problem but looking at PWS-SpyEye!env.a there does seem to be a bit of news online of false positives from other virus scanner software not just AVG.

All have been downloaded from the win-rar.com site. One has McAfee corporate antivirus, the other has ESET antivirus.. Neither one shows the file contains a trojan.. So, I've checked Avira, ESET, McAFee, Malwarebytes, and SuperAntispyware.. NONE of them show the trojan that AVG seems to be finding.. So,,,, false positive seems appropriate to me..

I'm not very technical, but just wanted to report my experience today. I recently installed Hamster ZIP Archiver, but because I kept getting an error message at startup, I decided to uninstall. While uninstalling, AVG (free edition) warned me about "PWS-SpyEye!env.a" and I let it put it in the vault, along with an .exe file (the Hamster uninstall file, I believe). However, then I was unable to uninstall properly. After finding this thread, I thought AVG must be mistaken, so I decided to restore the .exe file. Then I uninstalled and ignored the warning about PWS-SpyEye!env.a. I was then able to complete the uninstall.

Thanks for the tip! I think all is well now, although I won't know for sure till I restart.

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